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YEARS AS A LEGISLATOR, years as a bureaucrat "have nothing to do with executive ability." Lakian explains, adding that "a good university president has more qualifications than a state representative." The predominant skill necessary for a governor is the ability to manage and operate the state, to plan it as one would a company. That is the tool that requires experience and development. In effect, government is just one of many fields to which the professional "executive" can apply his expertise...
...HIGGIN'S CREDIT, however, he results some of the tough-guy cliches he spouts forth in his pompously awful weekly column about magazines in the Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...
...message, if any, emerging from the twin cases is apparent only through examining the shades of difference between the upper-class crimes. Barry Locke, the high-level bureaucrat who stole tax dollars typifies the evil outcast. Unlike in other recent corruption scandals--like those of Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, and Hugh Casey, Ronald Reagan's CIA director--no one stood up for Locke. The day he was charged King suspended him without pay. The day he was convicted, King called the whole affair "unfortunate." The public now scorns, cars, parodying the "Make it in Massachusetts" bumper stickers...
...even when Nixon was reduced to impotence, when every minor-league American bureaucrat dared to challenge him with impunity, foreign leaders almost without exception remained respectful. The majority did so because they had been drawn into the orbit of our design. Almost all thought that they were better off with the international system as it existed than with any alternative that they could imagine. The Soviets wanted to preserve detente as a counterweight to China; the Chinese needed us as a counterweight to the Soviets; the industrial democracies harassed us when it was safe but relied on us for security...
...vegetables at prices slightly higher than the state stores. A free-market egg costs about 40?, for example, compared with 30? for one in a state store. The more wealthy city dweller may drive out into the country and buy meat directly and illegally from a farmer. One Gdansk bureaucrat admits that he and a neighbor buy whole pigs and then salt the meat down in barrels. Such stratagems have become so common that the government last month prohibited the sale of meat outside state stores. Reason: farmers were refusing to sell their pigs to the government at the official...